>I used to use ftp all the time to access the RFCs but then it stopped >working about two months ago and messages on this list, from others >as well as me, and to the relevant e-mail address have had no effect. That's strange. It's always worked fine for me. I just tried it two seconds ago and FTP retrieval from ftp.isi.edu worked just fine. I'm using the fairly vanilla ftp client that comes with FreeBSD, with no special switches. Regards, John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, Mayor "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf